I've been drawing for nine years now and have gotten considerably better since I started, but I find myself still struggling to get things right like facial features, bodies, and, my biggest problem, hands. This coming Spring I'm going to college for animation and illustration, but I just struggle so much that it makes me wonder how I could ever be successful in that area. I really want to do this, but I lack in many resources (I have a box of old crayolas and all of digital art is done on (1)
Don‘t worry, everyone struggles at first, mostly if you’re self-taught. I’m sure at college they’ll teach you the basics of drawing again before starting with more specific stuff (at least that’s how it worked at the school of comics)But if you want to know some basic exercises I was given for human bodies and facial features, here there are:
the first thing to do is simplify figures, instead of starting drawing the body with anatomy right away, think of it as geometrical shapes put together
For the head there are these structures that might help you
For the hands, believe me, even the most expert artist on the earth has difficulties in drawing them.But as the other parts, it helps to make a geometrical structure before
I’m not really that good at drawing hands but that’s the principle of it.
As exercise for human bodies and gestures, photos of athletes are really useful,
study their gesture drawing mannequins over photos
You can do the same exercise for faces and hands.
KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE ARE EXCERCISE TO DRAW REALISTIC BODIES.STYLE COMES AFTER.You can take all these “shortcuts” and modify the proportions to have the type of figure you want.
As for the equipment, I think if you want to go for animation you need at least a computer and a drawing tablet… For traditional illustrations you can use anything really
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